REFORMED CHURCHES. 



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"The Law of Carriers and Bailments" (1860); 

 u Leading American U.-iiUvay Cases" (2 vols., 

 1870); and, with W. A. Herrick, U A Treatise 

 on Civil Pleading and Practice" (1868). Fr..m 

 1802 till his death he was one of the editors of 

 the American Law Register, published in Phil- 

 adelphia. He edited Story " On Euuity Plead- 

 ings" and "Conflict of Laws," and Greenleaf 

 ''On Evidence," and was a frequent contribu- 

 tor to periodicals. 



REFORMED CHURCHES. I. REFORMED 

 CHCBOH ix AMERICA. The following is a sum- 

 mary of the statistics of the Reformed Church 

 in America, as they were reported to the Gen- 

 eral Synod in 1876: 



Total number of families in the Church, 42,- 

 838 ; number of baptisms of infants during the 

 year, 4,230; number of baptisms of adults, 

 1,954; number of catechumens, 23,027; num- 

 ber of Sunday-schools, 574 ; number of schol- 

 ars in the same, 73,247 ; amount of contribu- 

 tions for religious and benevolent purposes, 

 $210,035.88; of contributions for congrega- 

 tional purposes, $872,804.28. 



The following are the statistics of the do- 

 mestic missions, as given in the report of the 

 board having that interest in charge : Number 

 of churches and missions aided, 95 ; of mis- 

 sionaries employed, 83 ; of families, 4,878 ; of 

 church-members, 6,673; amount of contribu- 

 tions by the missions to the Board of Domes- 

 tic Missions, $983; amount of contributions 

 by the missions to other benevolent objects, 

 $3,788. 



The following is a general summary of the 

 missions : 



The General Synod of the Reformed Church 

 in America met in Kingston, N. Y., June 7th. 

 The Rev. John McClellan Holmes, D. D., was 

 elected president. The committee who had 

 been appointed to confer with a committee of 

 the Northern General Assembly of the Pres- 

 byterian Church reported that they hud held a 

 joint meeting with the committee of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly, April 13, 1876. The committee 

 of the Assembly presented a paper embodying 

 the following points: The committees were 

 originally appointed to confer regarding the 

 desirableness and practicability of the union 

 of the two Churches. The General Synod 

 of the Reformed Church had in 1874 dis- 

 continued the Committee on Union, and 

 substituted for it one to confer with the 

 General Assembly's committee in regard to co- 

 operation a matter which had not been com- 

 mitted to it by the General Assembly. The 

 terms of correspondence already existing be- 

 tween the two bodies provided for the most 

 friendly relations, which the Assembly's com- 

 mittee trusted would always be continued ; 

 and the main objects proposed to be accom- 

 plished by this scheme of cooperation could 

 easily be attained without it. The Assembly's 

 committee had, therefore, resolved to inform 

 the committee of the Reformed Church that, in 

 their judgment, the plan proposed by them is 

 inexpedient, and to ask of their Assembly to be 

 discharged from the further consideration of 

 the subject. The synod's committee further 

 reported that they also deemed it inexpedient 

 to pursue the subject of cooperation ; and, with 

 the earnest hope that the fraternal relations of 

 the two Churches would ever be most pleasant, 

 and fruitful of good results, asked to be dis- 

 charged. They were discharged. It was re- 

 solved to raise, during the year, $2,500 in aid 

 of the Assembly's school at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 

 and of the work of evangelization undertaken 

 by the Rev. II. B. Blake in North Carolina. 

 Delegates were appointed to attend the meeting 

 of the Council of the Presbyterian Alliance, 



* Four or five places bare been supplied with native 

 preachers. 



t Almost the entire body of native helpers. 



